Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (a.) Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

2. (a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.

3. (a.) Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.